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Data-driven learning and the iPad What is the opposite of data-driven?

All improvement requires change

Change is our constant companion

People like change

Data

School image

Non-academic

programmes

Curriculum improvement

Test scores

Data-driven schools can be the crucible from which improvement emerges in ways that are different from the ways it tends to happen in schools that pay little or no attention to the data they generate.

Strong traditions of funding education research History of using assessment formatively

Strong historical reliance on standardised testing

Standards-based curricula

Uneasy relationship between central government and teaching unions

UK Inspection Framework (2012)

The quality of teaching and learning

Pupils’ achievement

Behaviour and safety

The effectiveness of the school’s leadership and management

To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose

Florence Nightingale

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Bambi Betts - four types of data (2003)

demographic data

data about school processes

learning data

perception data

OECD and CERI (2008)���Schooling for Tomorrow (draft document)

Four desirable traits of the 2020 learner

problem solving in teams

innovation

systems thinking

perseverance

Bush & Cameron (2012) ���- Pepperdine University, CA

Marks, McPhee, Cremin, Laxton, ���Sneider & Marks (2011) - Cedars School of Excellence, UK

Bebell, Dorris & Muir (2012)���- Auburn School District, MN

Bebell, Dorris & Muir (2012)���Auburn, MN

Bebell, Dorris & Muir (2012)���Auburn, MN

Too many innovative programs don't prioritize their own research, and even if they collect observations and stories later, they don't make the effort to do a randomized control trial, like we did. We wanted to make sure we could objectively examine the contribution of the iPads.

- Dr. Mike Muir, Auburn School Department's Multiple Pathways Leader

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Data for consideration

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We did not find a single case in the literature where student learning increased but had not been a central goal.

Joyce, Wolf and Calhoun���The Self-Renewing School (1993).

1. Teacher knowledge (incl. triangulation and steering the process of turning RIT scores and DesCartes statements into meaningful interventions)

2. Student commitment – the “buy in”

3. Clear timetable - including criteria for success and regular conferencing.

Innovative practices at ACS inspired by Project i Innovative practices at ACS inspired by Project i

Innovative practices at ACS inspired by Project i

Increasingly, the leadership needed for systemic change is coming from young people. Often ignored as leaders, teenagers and young adults have a strong stake in the future, perhaps the strongest. They are also the least invested in the past, giving them a distinctive ability to see the flaws in current mental modes and institution patterns and the courage to create something new. When young people develop basic leadership and collaborative learning skills, they can be a formidable force for change.

Peter M. Senge, The Fifth Discipline (2006).

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Risa Harrold

2023: High School Graduation

2027: Graduate from college

2070: Retirement?

January 1st, 2101: 95 years old!

(aged 7)

iPads provide a genuine and intriguing unknown in an area of education that appears to be one we have a moral imperative to explore.

The move to iPads is a significant enough investment on the part of schools to demand the most rigorous consideration possible of its cost/benefit balance.

Data-driven schools using MAP have a ready-to-hand model for this, and an invaluable resource in the form of a faculty used to and adept at understanding what observation data is telling us and is not telling us.

Central thesis